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Post by daveyposhboy on Jan 31, 2020 12:54:00 GMT
So in order to revive interest in the Copa Del Rey this year, the Spanish Federation scrapped replays and also made sure that the equivalent of their third round, where the big teams all come into it, means the lower league teams are always at home in those games. It's lead to Ibiza hosting Barcelona and, after threatening to go 2 goals up yesterday, only succumb to a last minute winner from Griezmann. Real Madrid went to Salamanca yesterday and took on a side created in 2015 as a phoenix club. And just now, Cultural Leonesa in the third division of Spanish football have just knocked out Atletico in extra time. They've got a fuckload of things wrong with Spanish football lately but seeing the crowds and the games Barca, Real and Atletico have been involved in this week, there's definitely something to be learnt. Wish they'd do this in the FA Cup although without scrapping replays & with the option for the lower league team to opt out of hosting the game. I'd even say fuck it, bin the League Cup altogether and put Prem teams in the first or second round.
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Post by #FreeBTS on Jan 31, 2020 14:33:33 GMT
Bin the League Cup, have everyone in the FA Cup earlier and try and get Scottish, Welsh and Irish clubs involved as well. Obviously taking away the semis from Wembley would be massive too. I say keep replays but whatever they do they need to make it a blanket rule for the competition, none of this replays in the early rounds but not in the quarters and after shite.
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Post by g7vikings on Jan 31, 2020 14:50:00 GMT
If the PL want rid of replays (and I think they should), they should pay for it. Losers receive minimal money for each qualifying round, but nothing from the first round proper onwards. After that only winners receive prize money.
Winners in the 3rd round receive £135k. 4th round £180k etc. Why don’t the PL teams forfeit this money? Any maybe even top it up. That way any lower league team could be guaranteed X amount of money, on top of the gate and potential TV money. Everyone happy?
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Post by daveyposhboy on Jan 31, 2020 20:35:09 GMT
Bin the League Cup, have everyone in the FA Cup earlier and try and get Scottish, Welsh and Irish clubs involved as well. Obviously taking away the semis from Wembley would be massive too. I say keep replays but whatever they do they need to make it a blanket rule for the competition, none of this replays in the early rounds but not in the quarters and after shite. I've only been Villa Park once but it's an infinitely better ground than Wembley. Can't believe getting £££ from the concessions at Wembley was important than holding the game at a proper football ground.
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Post by The Quito Diet on Jan 31, 2020 20:45:13 GMT
I love the idea of a British Cup to replace the League Cup. Rotate the host each year for the final.
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Post by #FreeBTS on Feb 1, 2020 11:29:48 GMT
Bin the League Cup, have everyone in the FA Cup earlier and try and get Scottish, Welsh and Irish clubs involved as well. Obviously taking away the semis from Wembley would be massive too. I say keep replays but whatever they do they need to make it a blanket rule for the competition, none of this replays in the early rounds but not in the quarters and after shite. I've only been Villa Park once but it's an infinitely better ground than Wembley. Can't believe getting £££ from the concessions at Wembley was important than holding the game at a proper football ground. League cup semis have been better than the FA Cup semis for a long time now for this reason. Atmosphere is a 1000x better, and in turn it makes the final more special. Plus it would stop the embarrassingly long list of clubs who’ve reached Wembley before Newcastle have.
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Post by ChappyHova on Feb 1, 2020 14:30:51 GMT
We went to 3 semi finals back in the day at Villa Park, Old Trafford and Hillsborough, they were all class.
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Post by The Quito Diet on Feb 6, 2020 21:54:23 GMT
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Post by The Quito Diet on Feb 9, 2020 21:33:52 GMT
I thought he was meant to be shit at these?
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Post by daveyposhboy on Feb 9, 2020 21:47:44 GMT
Well it didn't go in, did it?
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Post by ic on Feb 10, 2020 22:31:46 GMT
Djed celebrating a free kick not hitting the target is peak djed
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Post by daveyposhboy on Feb 11, 2020 10:23:57 GMT
Embarrassing. If this leads to them capsizing after how much they spent in January, with Union staying up, that'll be hilarious
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Post by The Quito Diet on Feb 21, 2020 20:40:48 GMT
La Liga is so fucking good this season.
Mallorca Betis 2-2 after 35 minutes
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Post by Heung-Min Pleat on Feb 22, 2020 18:05:13 GMT
Haaland scores his 40th of the season and we've still got a week of February spare
Best in the world already, if you still don't know then get fucking knowing
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Post by The Quito Diet on Feb 22, 2020 20:29:11 GMT
What I will say is that at least our handball rules aren't nearly as much of a farce as they are in Italy.
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